It is a well know fact that cormorants eat significant numbers of fish.

Various research papers confirm that cormorants are not only impacting fish stocks they are also now having a significant impact on the conservation of other birds, which are pushed out, etc.

While "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981" now protects them, the Act also states that it does not include poultry or Game Birds.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/em2004/uksiem_20041487_en.pdf

I have read on a number of occasions that cormorants are edible, surely then, if they are edible then they should be classed as poulty, or at least be re-classified as a Game Bird? Thus allowing fisheries to be protected from this black preditor while also providing a cheap and ready source of food?

It is just me, or are the powers that be, DEFRA deliberatly missing a simple way to resolve this ongoing issue?

Receipts can be found here: http://web.tiscalinet.it/sv2001/cormo_receipts.htm


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I dont think they would be edible it would be like eating a fishy tasting Craw
mind you i used to work with a guy that used to eat all road kills he came across anything from Crows to Herons, he told me once he found and ate a Tawny Owl,
Wouldn'T have fancied it myself.

There are very few birds or mammals which are inedible, in fact I'm struggling to think of a single example. Unpalatable, certainly, but inedible implies either a component which is poisonous, at it's worst, or, at it's best, merely no nutritional value. After all, soil is edible in that you can ingest it, but it's described as inedible as you cannot derive sustenance from it.

Curlew is a game bird... but it's still illegal to shoot it in England, Scotland or Wales.

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The Black Death has had it just now on Loch Leven its frozen over so they have moved on just hope they stay away

Wistfull thinking toshy, they will be back as soon as the ice clears. Im thinking there must be a lot less of them nowadays that the stocking has ceased?

Just because it might be edible doesn’t mean it’s a chicken, or a game bird! Nor for that matter is a curlew, a game bird.

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Ah ah, the two b******* that visit our fishery must be starving, it's been frozen over for a couple of weeks

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They go onto the rivers...

As I understand it? the EU has taken Cormorants off the protected list including a few others, but has put the resposibility on how this is interpreted back in the hands of individual member states, so what I want to know who is challenging Dfra and co to what they are doing now??

Alan

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Cormorants carry the most astonishing worm burden (maybe that is why they consume so much). It is dodgy handling them let alone eating them.

richard

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